Hello, search engine nation and all the ships at sea. Summer is finally, actually, truly,

here. And this week, we are celebrating by bringing you one of our very favorite classic

episodes of Search Engine, an enjoyable, well, enjoyable for us, hopefully for you, quest after a very

silly question. It's a story about kings and queens and the places they allegedly

cannonball, a story which took search engine's team of crack reporters across the Atlantic.

I hope you like it. We'll be back next week with the new one for you. Or if you just need to hear

something new from us right now, we actually have a fresh new episode on the incognito mode feed. It's a story that is about the pursuit of greatness and spicy noodles. But in order to hear that, you would need to be a subscriber to our incognito mode, which you can find at search engine. show. Most human beings start asking questions at about two and a half years old.

Our first questions usually begin with what?

The quintessential toddler query.

What's that?

The more sophisticated how and when questions,

those developmentally arrive from three.

And then between three and five, the deluge.

The constant questions.

The why questions.

Why is salami so hard to stop eating?

Why do people lie?

If you can think back, you can probably remember

this age when your parents were like perfect search engines capable of handling almost anything

you threw at them. And you also might remember the few times they'd refuse. When you'd ask

some question whose answer they weren't quite ready to share, and you'd get in, it's complicated,

or maybe a, when you're older.

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